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HORSE TRAINING DEVICE.

No. 464,113. Patented Deo. 1,1891.

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P. W. CASIIION. HORSE TRAINING DEVICE.

No. 464,113. APatented Deo. 1, 1891.

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PATRIOK'W. OASHION, OF GLENS FALLS, NEX-V YORK.

HORSE-TRAINING DEVICE.

SEECIFICTION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,113, dated December 1, 1891.

Application filed March 4, 1891. Serial No. 383,659. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK YV. OASHION, a citizen of the United States, residing at Glens Falls, county of Varren, and State of New York,vhave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse-Training Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such improvements;

and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed. Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedxthereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several iigures therein.

Figure l is a top plan View of a pair of vehicle-shafts with my improved training device attached. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the parts shown in Fig. l, with a portion of one of the'vehicle-wheels. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the broken line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. at is a vertical section taken on the broken line 4 4 in Fig. 2.

My improved device comprises a pair of adj ustable spring-controlled guide-rails, respect'- ively rising from the middle part of the shafts and extending backward along converging lines to the seat or body of the vehicle, adapted to engage the horse back of the flank, provided his hind feet do not track in line with his fore feet. A

The shafts A are connected by a skeleton frame A', which supports the seat A2, adapted for a horse-trainers sulky. The rails B are pivoted at their forward ends upon the mid? dle part of the shafts, as by a pivot B', passed through the ears of clips B2, secured to the shaft by the screw-threaded bolt BB and nut B4. The rails bow upward and extend backward convergingly, as shown in Fig.' 1, to the seat, to which they are rigidly secured. The hind quarters of the horse occupy the space between the rails, and the close proximity of the rails on either side of the horse prevents him from acquiring the habit of traveling with his hind feet on one side of the track formed by his fore feet, and will break up the habit if already acquired. If the shafts themselves were brought sufficiently near together to guide the horse they would wear and chate his legs and be more easily broken. The rails are raised high enough to not interfere with the free action of the limbs or the muscular movements of the horse, and Iprefer to rigidly secure the rear ends of the rails in such amanner that they can be adjusted vertically and so that the rails will yield somewhat laterally. The rails are each flattened toward their rear ends, as shown, and rigidly secured between the ears of the metallic support O by a bolt O', adapted to pass through apertures O3 in the ears and the rails, as shown in Fig. 3. The rails being pivoted at their forward ends upon axial lines approximately parallel with the shafts and rails, the rails are held in their normal upright position, as shown, by means of the ears of the metallic support; but the torsional spring or resiliency of the rails would permit of their being moved laterally when subjected to alateral strain. By changing the position of the bolt C in the ear-holes the device can be adapted to horses of different sizes. Then desired, side braces D may be employed to assist in resisting lateral strains. These braces are made in two parts, D and D2-one secured at one end to a shaft A and the other at one end to a rail B, the other ends being adjustably secured to each other, as by a screw-threaded bolt D3 and nut. One of the parts, as D2, is pivoted to the clip D4, secured upon the shaft by bolt D5, which permits the braces to move freely with the rails..

When desired, the rails may be connected by a slack breeching-strap E, which serves to prevent the horse from getting too far back in the rails, and as a mutual brace between the rails when a considerable lateral movement is communicated to one of them.

In cases where the horse has already formed the habit of traveling with his hind feet always on one and the same side of the trackline formed by his fore feet, one of the rails may be'dispensed with, when desired, only the rail erected upon that side toward which the hair of the horse when the rail is Wet, I provide a smooth metallic plate F, which is secured upon the inner side of the rail at that point Whichcornes in contact with the horse.

What I claim as ne\v,'and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a vehicle, the combination, with one of the shafts, of a guide-rail pivotally secured at one end to the middle part of the shaft and 1o rigidly secured at the other end to the vehicle, substantially as described.

2. In a vehicle, the combination, with the shafts, of a pair of guide-rails bowed at one end and secured to the middle part of the l 15 shafts in a rising position, the other ends of the rails converging toward each other and being adj ustably fixed to the body of the Vehicle, substantialiy as described.

3. In a vehicle, the combination, with apair zo of guide-rails severally secured at their forward ends to the middle part of the shafts and at their rear ends to the body of the vehicle, of adjustable side braces connecting each rail With the contiguous shaft, substantially as described.

4. In a vehicle, the combination, with a pair of guide-rails severally secured at their forward ends to the middle parts of the shafts and at their rear ends to the body of the vehicle, of a breechingstrap connecting such rails intermediately of their ends, substantially as PATRICK W1 CASI'IION.

IVitnesses:

GEO. A. MosIiER', FRANK C. CURTIS. 

